Join WDC and cosponsors the African Affairs Advisory Group and the Association of Black Democrats, as we hear from Reynauld Smith, who shares his family’s oral history about Juneteenth.

Smith is a distinguished graduate of Tuskegee, mentored by the eminent historian Professor Russell Adams at Howard University. He has a 37-year career as a history teacher at secondary schools in Dallas, Montgomery County, and Washington, DC. He is also a board member of the Sandy Spring Slave Museum.

Smith was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Nairobi, Kenya, and received the McGraw Hill prize for his leadership work on Global Education. He has met with many of the leading African Statesmen of the 21st Century, including Nelson Mandela, and is proud of his revolutionary past as a worker on voter registration with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) at Tuskegee. 

For his work on the modern civil rights movement and voter registration, he received a Proclamation from the Rockville City Council. Smith's background in African American History has made him a major contributor.

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